Post-office box



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J. MoLANE,

POST OFFICE BOX.

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JOHN MOLANE, OF MILFORD, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

POST-OFFICE BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,652, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed March 20, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.- I

Beitkn'own' that I, JOHN MOLANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milford, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Post-0ffice Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apperlains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the construction of post-office boxes for holding letters, cards, papers, andsimilar articles.

It is old to make a letter-box having a floor for the pigeon-holes composed of wire rods, whereby the floor is made practically entirely open, leaving no lodging-place for dirt or dust thereon. The trouble with such a box is, that small letters and postal-cards fall through between the wires, thereby preventing the rapid assortment and distribution of the mail.

My improvement consists in placing one or more .wires (depending on the size of the box) across the said floorwires, at opposite directions thereto, as hereinafter described and claimed.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a view of a box with my improvement attached.

A BC represent the frame of a box, and E the wire-rod bottom.

Serial No. 267,808. (No model.)

G G are cross-rods secured at one end to crosspiece B, and at the opposite ends bent and secured to the back floor-rod The cross-rods may be round or flat; but I prefer them round.

I am aware that the bottoms of letter-boxes have been constructed to serve the purpose of a grid or sieve that is of wood or sheet metal, freely perforated, or of wire-gauze, boltingcloth, wire, or other bars or rods, or of interlocked or interlinked wire or other netting, &c.; but my invention is peculiarly constructed to facilitate the assortment of the mail by preventing the letters, postal-cards, or papers from catching or pushing against any obstruction, whereby the same might be torn.

WhatI claim is- A postoffice box provided with an open wire-rod bottom, E, and a crosspiece, B, in combination with cross-rods G G,placed across and over the said floor-rods and at opposite directions thereto, the said cross-rods secured at one end to said cross-piece B, and their opposite ends bent and hooked to oneof the floorrods, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN MOLANE. Witnesses:

F. W. BARNES,

FRANK P. B001). 

